Motivational Quotes

Art

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

- Mailer, Norman

Best Quotes about Art

The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Art has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Byron, Lord

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Trocchi, Alexander

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry